About Dominion

About Dominion

Dominion Print has come a long way from its lowly beginnings in a converted Methodist chapel in a small suburb outside of Bradford. Set up on a shoe string by founder and MD, Dominic Clark in 1983, the business set its sights on the Litho side of print but quickly recognised the virtues of what was, in those days, very much the ‘niche’ market of large format print.

Keeping with the ecclesiastical theme, the business soon moved to a larger church property, installing their first ‘monster’ press, a semi-auto Kippax screen print line, offering a massive 20’ x 6’ print capacity in one pass along with other, slightly smaller 3/4matic and auto screen presses. Despite the necessity to ‘post’ the huge screens through giant ‘postboxes’ from the screen room on the first floor to the print room on the ground, these machines kept the business in the fore-front of large format for many years.

With the onset of digital print, Dominion were quick to install a 5m Vutek with a 3m Nur coming in fast behind and as business picked up further and faster the business upped sticks and in 2002 they re-located once more, this time to a 60,000FT2 factory at the end of the M606. Year one saw the installation of the mammoth M & R in-line printer which looked as much like an aircraft carrier as a print line and which was capable of printing 5 colours, in line, to a size of 12’ x 5’ in one pass.

Since then the Company has continued to expand and invest in the latest equipment, adding faster and better quality digital print, flat bed digital and dye sub lines to the plant and more investment in state of the art equipment is currently under way, ensuring that Dominion continue to be the UK’s most customer focused print solutions provider, offering exceptional quality, service and innovation as standard.

The Family

In 1983 a fresh faced Dominic Clark moved a couple of aged litho presses into a small converted chapel in the Heaton district of Bradford and Dominion Print was born. It didn’t take long for Dominic to spot the niche market of ‘Large Format’ print and the rapid replacement of the litho presses and large format screen presses quickly followed.

The converted chapel was soon out-grown and, maintaining the ecclesiastical feel, Dominion gathered-up its goods and chattels and moved into a much larger converted church just a few miles away. Elaine joined the business in the early 1990s and they eventually moved into the church alongside the business… Soon the operation experienced some growing pains…one due to the sheer size of screens required and the difficulty in moving them from the screen prep area on the first floor to the print departments in the basement and ground floor…the solution? the construction of giant ‘slots’ in the floors so the 23’ x 8’ screens could be ‘posted’ from one floor to the other. Genius! A further ‘growing pain’ was the imminent arrival of Verity in 1996 – but more of that later. In 2002 Dominion moved to its current home at Carrwood House where Tom joined in 2009, followed by Verity in 2012, making Dominion a genuine ‘family affair’.

Elaine Clark

Company Secretary

Fave print process: I’m old fashioned, it HAS to be screen printBest achievement: Judging CruftsTop one on bucket list: To create a bucket listFave music: Too many to pick just one

Thomas Clark

Director

Fave print process: Back up white printingBest achievement: Commendation from West Yorkshire Fire Brigade for saving an old woman and her dog from a burning houseTop one on bucket list: Travel the worldFave music: Funk/soul

Associate Director

John Earnshaw

Sales Director

Fave print process: Dye Sub!Best achievement: racing at British superbike meetings in my 20’s…before i got too old!Top one on bucket list: to ride the Cresta run in SwitzerlandFave music: Lumineers, Trampled by turtles but most music to be honest!

Mark Ord

Operations Manager

Fave print process: Dye subliminationBest achievement: Harrogate League Pool Champion (1990 ish)Top one on bucket list: Go in a shark cage and see Great Whites up close.Fave music: Everything as long as it’s not too loud.

Simon Nevison

Finishing Manager

Fave print process: Flatbed printingBest achievement: Voted best Dad in the world 11 years running on Father’s DayTop one on bucket list: Visit Graceland in Memphis, home of ElvisFave music: Most things with proper instruments from Elvis to Nirvana up to the Artic Monkeys.

Dorota Prezkop

Assistant Finishing Manager

Fave print process: Dye SubBest achievement: Finding the perfect manTop one on bucket list: To see the 7 wonders of the worldFave music: Almost everything 80s/90s dance, techno and house

Mark Lorriman

Warehouse Manager

Fave print process: DyesubBest achievement: My KidsTop one on bucket list: parachute jump, (went to do it a few years ago and got cancelled due to weather)Fave music: Ska

Byron Fox

Production planning and project manager

Fave print process: Fluorescent printingBest achievement: My Daughter and being Captain of Bradford City FC from 9 -15 years old.Top one on bucket list: Travel across the USAFave music: Grime

Jim Airey

Installation manager

Rob Kershaw

business development manager

Fave print process: Love a bit of Dye SubBest achievement: 5 for 16 against Lancaster Royal GrammarTop one on bucket list: To play for Liverpool FC (still got it in me….)Fave music: Pretty eclectic, anything from Nirvana to Daft Punk, from Bowie to Oasis to a few 80s guilty pleasures

Graham Mallinson

business development manager

Fave print process: A combination of • Offset Litho • Intaglio• LetterpressBest achievement: 1st place and a trophy in a Karting race in 2006Top one on bucket list:Completed most of my ambitions, still never done sky diving with dolphinsFave music: James Taylor

Mark Reeday

Client Services

Christine Ingham

Client Services

Fave print process: Dye Sublimation PrintBest achievement: Swim the Channel in my local pool – doing as we speakTop one on bucket list: To win the LotteryFave music: David Bowie

Mark Watkin

Client Services

Fave print process: Washing screens the old fashioned way!! Sadly it was a long time ago nowBest achievement: Completing my bucket list before being too old to enjoy it!!Top one on bucket list: I’ve been so lucky!! My bucket list is pretty much completeFave music: From Beethoven’s choral symphony, through to Iron Maiden.

Nicola Teal

Client Services

Fave print process: Regianni for the ‘Essence of Fluorescence’ love the vibrancy of colours it offersBest achievement: Asking a policeman for directions in Canada and receiving a 10-mile escort and my children I am torn between the two…..you decide!Top one on bucket list: Retire early, sell up and travel around Europe in a motorhome with my doggiesFave music: The Stone Roses

Natalie Taylor

Client Services

Steve Goldthorpe

Studio manager

Fave print process: Digital and Dye-SublimationBest achievement: Personally it would be my family and how my two boys are developing in to beautiful peopleTop one on bucket list: Base JumpingFave music: All Music, Dance – classical – Grime!